Edmonton, Canada (SPX) May 03, 2023
A University of Alberta researcher is among a group of scientists choosing which samples NASA's rover Perseverance will gather on Mars to bring back for analysis on Earth. For this mission, "return sample scientist" Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and curator of the U of A's Meteorite Collection, will help determine which samples could answer the

Houston TX (SPX) May 03, 2023
NASA has named Emily Nelson its new chief flight director, leading the group that directs human spaceflight missions from the Mission Control Center at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Norm Knight, the agency's director of flight operations, selected Nelson to replace Holly Ridings, who held the position from 2018 to 2022, and now helps lead the agency's Gateway Program, an in

Adelaide, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2023
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia's leading space research centre, has announced a prestigious program to fund two PhD students to undertake an intensive ten-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, USA. Aspiring space leaders Anne Bettens, from the University of Sydney, and Emily Ahern, from the University of Adelaide, have been paired w

Paris (ESA) May 03, 2023
The European Space Agency is currently looking for a new Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications and new Director of Internal Services to join its executive board and support the Director General, with responsibility for relevant ESA activities and overall objectives. b>Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications br> /b> As Director of Connectivity and Secure Communicat

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2023
NASA, on behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has selected five firms for the Space Weather Next Lagrange 1 Series (L1 Series) Coronagraph (COR) Phase A Study. These contracted firms will provide services to help meet the objectives of NOAA's L1 Next Series. The firms selected are Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL), Laurel, Maryland; EO Vista, Acton, M

Boston MA (SPX) May 01, 2023
Maybe you can't tell a book from its cover, but according to researchers at MIT you may now be able to do the equivalent for materials of all sorts, from an airplane part to a medical implant. Their new approach allows engineers to figure out what's going on inside simply by observing properties of the material's surface. The team used a type of machine learning known as deep learning to c

Germantown MD (SPX) May 03, 2023
Hughes Network Systems has announced new HughesNet plans for small businesses in the U.S. The new satellite internet service plans include features like business-grade support, express repair and free installation to support the needs of small businesses for network availability and high performance. The plans also include low-latency HughesNet Fusion plans that seamlessly blend Geostation

NASA may not have enough plutonium available to power a mission to Uranus recommended by the latest decadal survey until the latter half of the 2030s.

The U.S. Space Force selected Lockheed Martin and Raytheon to develop competing ground systems for a next-generation space communications network that can survive a nuclear attack.

The $6.4 billion buyout of Maxar Technologies is complete and the company is now officially private.